Culinary aesthetics and practices in nineteenth-century American literature / edited by Monika Elbert and Marie Drews
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- 出版： New York : Palgrave Macmillan c2009
- 叢書名： Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
- 主題： Food in literature , Food habits in literature , American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- ISBN： 9780230103146 、 0230103146
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- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 系統號： 005162213 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the preponderance of food imagery in nineteenth-century literary texts. Contributors to this volume analyze the social, political, and cultural implications of scenes involving food and dining and illustrate how "aesthetic" notions of culinary preparation are often undercut by the actual practices of cooking and eating. As contributors interrogate the values and meanings behind culinary discourses, they complicate commonplace notions about American identity and question the power structure behind food production and consumption.
內容註
Introduction / Monika Elbert and Marie Drews -- pt. 1. Culinary etiquette and capitalist appetites: consumption and economies of food. Suburban men at the table: culinary aesthetics in the mid-century country book / Maura D'Amore -- Conspicuous consumption: Howells, James, and thegilded age restaurant / Mark McWilliams -- "Bonbons in abundance": thepolitics of sweetness in Kate Chopin's fiction / Andrew Dix and Lorna Piatti -- pt. 2. Confrontations and negotiations: power dynamics at theAmerican table. Whale as a dish: culinary rhetoric and the discourse of power in Moby-Dick / Robert T. Tally Jr. -- Catharine Beecher, Harriet E. Wilson, and domestic discomfort at the northern table / Marie Drews -- "True and faithful in everything": recipes for servant and class reform in Catherine Owen's cookbook novels / Kim Cohen -- pt. 3. Palatable virtues: models of citizenship and the national cuisine. Doughnuts and gingerbread, apples and pears: boyhood food economies in nineteenth-century periodicals for children / Lorinda B. Cohoon -- The edible book: white female pleasure and novel reading / Cree LeFavour -- The perfect dinner: Hawthorne's ruminations on old and New England / Monika Elbert -- pt. 4. Man does not live on bread alone: the paradox of nourishment. Hunger, panic, refusal: the gift of food in Susan Warner's The wide,wide world / Hildegard Hoeller -- Strawberries and salt: culinary hazards and moral education in Little women / Yvonne Elizabeth Pelletier --"This foreshadowed food": representations of food and hunger in Emily Dickinson's American gothic / Elizabeth Andrews -- Consumption and cannibalism in the altrurian romances of William Dean Howells / Lance Rubin